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Authors Niello  
Subject Cellular telephones: communications interceptions.
Relating To relating to cellular telephones.
Title An act to amend Section 635 of the Penal Code, relating to cellular telephones.
Last Action Dt 2025-02-11
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2026-02-02     Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
2025-02-19     Referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-02-12     From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 14.
2025-02-11     Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Introduced     2025-02-11
Analyses TBD
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Existing law makes a person who, among other things, intercepts, receives, or assists in intercepting or receiving, a communication transmitted between cellular radio telephones or between a cellular radio telephone and a landline telephone guilty of a crime, unless consented to by all parties to the communications. Under existing law, subject to specified exceptions, a person who manufactures, assembles, sells, or offers for sale, advertises for sale, possesses, transports, imports, or furnishes to another person a device that is primarily or exclusively designed or intended for eavesdropping upon the communication of another person, in violation of the prohibition described above is punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,500, by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

This bill would make nonsubstantive, technical changes to that latter existing provision.